bigfloat with maxima



Colin Cartade wrote:
> In maple, I use digits:=n to choose the precision (here 1/10^n) when
> calculating with floats.
> Is there a similar command in maxima ?
>
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fpprec:n

You need to write bigfloats like this:  1.0b0